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I had an interesting discussion the other day regarding what is an applicable environmental legal requirement. What exactly is applicable to an organization? We have to start by looking at the scope of the environmental management system. The scope is a set of boundaries and...

For both environmental and OHS management systems, one of the key commitments in the policy is the commitment to comply with legal requirements.
So how do you test that the auditee has actually met this commitment?
First of all what does this commitment actually mean? It doesn’t mean...

No matter how many times I have had to do it, raising a nonconformity is not easy. Particularly during an initial certification. Everyone is so excited, they have worked for this moment for months and months and they think that they have covered everything. Then...